Re: [videoblogging] Tags

2006-01-20 Thread Joshua Kinberg
If you use the relTag format then your posts will show up as tagged in Technorati and a few other search engines. The new FireAnt directory will soon be recognizing relTag as well... in due time. The relTag syntax is super easy and very well explained over here:

Re: [videoblogging] Freevlog to Wordpress instruction tweak???

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I know this is possibly not gonna help at all, but if you want to play your video on line and not make a link for feedburner for itunes or fireant, post you video to Dailymotion or Youtube, then blog from there and they will put a flash version of your video straight on your site, Ummm...

Re: [videoblogging] the lamest format (it's not Flash video)

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Not so fast there... Windows Media ain't going away anytime soon. You wanna know why? Two reasons: - Its much easier to create Windows Media on PCs than it is to create Quicktime (just ask any of the Windows users here what they've had to go through). - DRM. Imagine you are a hollywood studio.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: using josh's pop up thing.

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
NO, popup blockers do not block popups that you explicitly click to activate. Popup blockers only block popups that launch on the page load, but not upon clicking a link. -Josh On 1/19/06, LeanBackVids.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, pop-ups are no longer assumed reliable. Firefox and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: using josh's pop up thing.

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
the media when used this way. There is nothing hidden. -Josh On 1/19/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO, popup blockers do not block popups that you explicitly click to activate. Popup blockers only block popups that launch on the page load, but not upon clicking a link. -Josh

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip and Sprint

2006-01-18 Thread Joshua Kinberg
companies have trademarks pending. We're going to work on it, and that's about the best I can say right now. Yours, Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it enough separation that one company targets mobile users

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip and Sprint

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Is it enough separation that one company targets mobile users and the other is for desktop citizens? Blip.tv also supports mobile uploads. I wouldn't say its only for desktop citizens. -Josh On 1/17/06, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, well I guess it will remain a mystery to me. I'm

Re: [videoblogging] The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Why pack them all together into a 15 min. video?Why not let them each exist as separate videos that can be downloaded quicker and easier? You may as well simply link to the originals too in order to credit the creators. -joshOn 1/16/06, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a 15 minute

Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Christian, it's in the non-public beta, which rumors say will be released soon. Will be released publicly very soon. New Windows version and Website too! Its a big update. We've been working hard but have been a little quiet about it here in this group. -Josh On 1/16/06, Stephanie Bryant

Re: [videoblogging] The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
versions for Mac and Windows plus a new Website. -Josh On 1/16/06, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I crashed after replying to the last one. Awake again... On 1/16/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why pack them all together into a 15 min. video? For context

Re: [videoblogging] The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I agree with most of this. If it proves to be true that viewers won't watch a video until they've read something about it, we'll probably have to rethink our presentation. Although Rocketboom, Bottomunion, Human-Dog, etc. Not true. Rocketboom makes great use of text. There are always story

Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
OK, so now i'm wondering if those of us, like me, who prefer shorter videos are simply more vocal than others. Come on, there's got to be some people out there who love the longer videos and just can't get enough of the large files. -Josh On 1/16/06, Philip Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3

Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I mean, in theory, if we're talking faster and fatter pipes, won't file size limitations be a thing of the past? -josh On 1/16/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so now i'm wondering if those of us, like me, who prefer shorter videos are simply more vocal than others. Come

Re: [videoblogging] The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
their commute. short, long... whatever. its not even worth debating since the wide audience consists of many different preferences. why ask why and all that. sull On 1/16/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For context, and ease of use for the viewer. But I don't know what's

Re: [videoblogging] youtube / flickr reportage

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This trend is easily chalked up to the SNL Lazy Sunday clip, wich was probably viewed a few million times through YouTube in the span of a week and a half. Of course, YouTube should not have allowed this clip to remain on their servers as its obviously copyright infringement. I would doubt that

Re: [videoblogging] The PAN!

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I really should make something similar to that plugin to handle MRSS. I've wanted to for a long time but have been waiting on the Microformat crowd to approve some kind of standard for media. -Josh On 1/16/06, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/06, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] download google videos

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
, Joshua Kinberg wrote: apparently the videos you can purchase through Google Video Store aren't made to be played in common media players. Here's a hack to download AVI versions of the videos: http://www.querocarromogi.com/videogoogle/ I'm not sure about pay only' videos... very interested

Re: [videoblogging] ipod conversion now built into iTunes

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This is true. Its in their features list on the download page for iTunes. Why would you be in disbelief here? Seems like a natural feature and the export option is built into QT Pro. BTW, all the features of QT Pro are accessible from the Quicktime API. This means that when you buy QT Pro you're

Re: [videoblogging] ipod conversion now built into iTunes

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
. And for the record: I think you're the first person to call the QT Pro GUI nice. Simple, certainly. Nice... Not so much. :o) - Andreas On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:04:35 +0100, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is true. Its in their features list on the download page for iTunes. Why would you

Re: [videoblogging] Re: ipod conversion now built into iTunes

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
time is a big turn-off unless it happens in the background. And for the record: I think you're the first person to call the QT Pro GUI nice. Simple, certainly. Nice... Not so much. :o) - Andreas On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:04:35 +0100, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [videoblogging] Re: ipod conversion now built into iTunes

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those authors will have limited sales or go out of business. The average user doesn't want another step to figure out a codec to make their video work. They want it to simply work and will bypass

Re: [videoblogging] Re: ipod conversion now built into iTunes

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
: On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: right... you had to drag the stuff in and it automatically converts. But it still had to convert. Its just that the interface was simple and intuitive. I would think that iTunes will try to make the process roughly the same for video

Re: [videoblogging] the clerks videoblog

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
The Kevin Smith videoblog was posted here in this group a long time ago. Here it is back on Oct. 3, 2005: http://groups.google.com/group/videoblogging/browse_thread/thread/ef267ef8fdacdf81/08abebdf2a6e5329?q=kevin+smithrnum=1#08abebdf2a6e5329 -Josh On 1/15/06, Ted Tagami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
a lot of people seem to download Democracy Now, which is roughly an hour and usually something around 120 MB. Personally, I can't watch anything much over 3 minutes, whether its a vlog or a TV show. I really don't like to see vlog entries that are more than 30 MB. Again, this is simply a personal

Re: [videoblogging] re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-14 Thread Joshua Kinberg
All I'm saying is let's give them the opportunity to make adjustments now that the issue has been brought up. Its probably not something the service owners thought much about. Its likely they simply copied it from somewhere else. Rather than continue to jump on them here, let's give them the

Re: [videoblogging] itunes:block in wordpress / feedburner - how?

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
do you want to remove the entire feed from iTunes directory, or just a single item? -J On 1/13/06, Christian Wach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jan 2006, at 02:55, R. Kristiansen wrote: i need to remove a wordpress rss feed that goes through feedburner from the iTunes music store. how do

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
commercial use of this stuff ain't cheap. I've looked into it too. Depends though.. everything's a negotiation. Its certainly less expensive to license this encoding technology on the server side (one license) than to do so for a client side application (license to distribute multiple copies).

Re: [videoblogging] Re: wmv from quicktime, for free

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Have you been able to export the whole movie to WMV with Quicktime? I think it exports the first 10 sec. or so as a trial, but you need to upgrade to Flip4Mac Studio to be able to really export WMV (that costs $99 if I recall... if that's free now then I will definitely be contacting them for my

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Okay all... this is great feedback, but seriously let's cut the guy a break. He's listening and interacting here. That's the first step. Legaleze like Terms Of Service agreements are hard to write. Nobody knows what to do here, and paying lawyers to do this gets expensive... and the lawyers can

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
that's true. Adobe does own Macromedia. Not sure what changes you're expecting though. -J On 1/13/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that Adobe bought Macromedia (http://tinyurl.com/dsd82)...maybe they'll change it up a bit? On 1/13/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I think the whole argument that Flash has the most ubiquity is a bit of a myth. Rocketboom has always been embedded Quicktime. They have a huge daily audience. No one ever complains that they can't see the Quicktime video. Of course they provide other formats too because some people prefer them.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
a unique situation. And I would bet that the reason RocketBoom doesn't have any complaints is because they do offer multiple formats. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the whole argument

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash - nice pop-up generator!

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
options via pop-up windows. Your solution is just what I was thinking about. Is the PHP script available? Thanks... joe http://www.hotbizz.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the whole argument that Flash has the most ubiquity

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash - nice pop-up generator!

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
-- From: Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 12, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging with Flash - nice pop-up generator! To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com The PHP script is really simple. If you have any basic scripting experience it should be a cake-walk. I was going

Re: [videoblogging] AOL acquire Truveo - video search

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Kind of weird since AOL already has media search with Singing Fish. -Josh On 1/10/06, Digital Buddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WSJ is reporting AOL's acquisition of Truveo. They came out of beta in September of last year. Searching Vlog yields 1000+ posts. -- Ted Tagami tagami.com U N I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: PORN, yes, I said it PORN.

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Here's a suggestion... You need contact info for the feed owner to notify them (allow owners to claim their feed)... perhaps notify them that their feed will be flagged as explicit and offer them a choice to provide a rating category if they desire (PG, PG-13, R, X... whatever scale you want).

Re: [videoblogging] Re: PORN, yes, I said it PORN.

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Categories based on tags maybe? That is the Microformat way. Just tag it with a relTag. -Josh On 1/10/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Categories based on tags maybe? On 1/10/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: categories... a full circle. back in the day

Re: [videoblogging] Re: PORN, yes, I said it PORN.

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
maybe just allow folks to tag it not safe for work a check box when submitting a feed. -Josh On 1/10/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be nice (if this is a favorable way to go) to use our own ratings, and not be tied to choices big media made On 1/10/06, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is the videoblogging world better with 1 centralized site?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Different people have different needs. There will always be different services to appeal to different people. -Josh On 1/10/06, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with having one centralized leader for videoblogs is that it would create a monopoly. It's better to have competition

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is the videoblogging world better with 1 centralized site?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
You don't have to pay anything if you are satisfied with free services. Let's look at it with an abbreviated example from the blogging world... There's Blogger. Its free. Its pretty good. It does a lot of stuff that works fine for a lot of people. But it doesn't include many features that are

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is the videoblogging world better with 1 centralized site?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
that's just not how the internet works. It is massive and distributed. It is too large for any one entity to control or make entire sense of. Not even Google. What is going to happen with videoblogs, or video on the web, is that there will be a lot of it and it will be everywhere. It is

Re: [videoblogging] Play WMV in QuickTime Player

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
very cool... although I already shelled out for the Flip4Mac Studio version which lets you edit and export WMV too. However, I disabled the automatically play WMV files in Quicktime feature. I wanted to make sure I was getting the same experience other users would get. I can still open WMV in

Re: [videoblogging] wordpress now hosts?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
yes, this is true. this was out at Webzine. -josh On 1/10/06, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wordpress.com/ can someone confirm what seems to be true? wordpress is now like blogger.com? you can just sign up for a free account...and host video on it? i just signed up...uploaed

Re: [videoblogging] wordpress now hosts?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
haha, stick with typepad if it works for you. -Josh On 1/10/06, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, this is true. this was out at Webzine. okay...im behind the times. im dumping Typepad. Jay -- Adventures in Videoblogging http://www.momentshowing.net http://getFireAnt.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flash, video iPod and offering MP3 podcasts

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Flash is used by service providers... upload your video here types of services. This is fine, but for an independent who wants to post their own video on the web, dealing with Flash is still for the most part too expensive and too complicated. Flash MX 2004 Professional is not a cheap program.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flash, video iPod and offering MP3 podcasts

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
of available technologies. sullOn 1/10/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash is used by service providers... upload your video here typesof services.This is fine, but for an independent who wants to post their own videoon the web, dealing with Flash is still for the most part too expensive

Re: [videoblogging] Re: I did THIS to embed Flash onto Wordpress

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Yet again here's a Wordpress plugin for embedding Flash Video. With this, all you do is upload your FLV, insert a simple tag in your blog entry, and you're done. This is the most elegant implementation of Flash Video for independent videobloggers I've seen yet.

Re: [videoblogging] wordpress now hosts?

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
doesn't remember) ... Richard On 1/10/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: haha, stick with typepad if it works for you. -Josh On 1/10/06, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, this is true. this was out at Webzine. okay...im behind the times. im dumping

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Another CES post

2006-01-08 Thread Joshua Kinberg
definitely not the same company. -Josh On 1/7/06, Ted Tagami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are bliptv.com and blip.tv the same company? I thought that bliptv.com had an agreement with Sprint? On 1/7/06, Jack Olmsted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been publishing video blog reports and photos

Re: [videoblogging] Re: How to format .avi files for Google video?

2006-01-07 Thread Joshua Kinberg
it does have mp3 audio codec. When you compress your video, use custom settings and change the Audio settings. You can select your Audio compression format and bitrate. -Josh On 1/7/06, gmjoyce_y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Andreas. I recently bought QTPro but it doesn't have the MP3

Re: [videoblogging] Questions on Formats to Post for Vlog.

2006-01-06 Thread Joshua Kinberg
iPod will play mov and mp4. It depends more on the resolution and bitrate. m4v is not actually anything other than an mp4 with h.264 codec, aac audio, and specific resolution and bitrate settings optimized for iPod. So really, m4v is a made up file extension. It should actually be mp4, as that's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Real People Network

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I'm thinking about this concept of Real People Network you've created here, and I can't help but think what would happen if you allowed more people to contribute interviews with Real People. They would not have to be connected in some way with technology, just interviews, conversation, oral

Re: [videoblogging] iPod QT m4v format problems

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I mean, just edit the file extension, don't convert the file. Rename the file so the extension is .mp4. -Josh On 1/4/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: change .m4v to .mp4 and I bet all will work right. -Josh On 1/4/06, John Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Vloggers,Thanks

Re: [videoblogging] iPod QT m4v format problems

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
change .m4v to .mp4 and I bet all will work right. -Josh On 1/4/06, John Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Vloggers,Thanks for eveyones help yesterday. I have installed the feed enclosure plugin and it seems to be working great and it improved the reliability of the feed. I'm not sure I

Re: [videoblogging] more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
there's also this little gadget called a Sony PSP And another called a Zen Vision:Micro... And there are and will be plenty more. Those of you going to CES, let's see if we can compile a list of portable video players, their video specs, and prices. I bet there will be several iPod

Re: [videoblogging] more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
video with their computer and then sync it to their phone for portable viewing. -joshOn 1/3/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have mobile phones with video playback hit the market yet?On 1/3/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's also this little gadget called a Sony PSP

Re: [videoblogging] Yahoo is now making Tv for the web

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I think Yahoo! was dealt kind of a blow lately when MTV decided to go with Microsoft as the partner for their MTV Urge Music and Video Store. Yahoo's offices are literally across the street from MTV in Santa Monica. I bet they were pretty burned by that. Regardless, I do think there is real

Re: [videoblogging] more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
i doubt this is true... Mac OS X is based on UNIX. So is Linux. In fact, many Linux programs will run on Mac OS X and porting Linux to Mac is generally pretty easy (though sometimes not as easy to go the other way if a Mac program has some Mac dependencies). -Josh . On 1/3/06, Jay dedman [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
the power in Apple's hands for now I guess.On 1/3/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, but generally they suck. They are also mostly focused on streaming video (see: Verizon Vcast) because it is easier to charge for. Phone companies don't make money selling phones, they make it selling

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Not underwhelmed, just unwilling to concede that Apple is the *only* player out there. There is more than Apple. Much more. I believe that video creators, consumers, and participants should have choices. Let there be more content, more creators, more devices, more software, more marketplaces,

Re: [videoblogging] more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
...video iPod.On 1/3/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get it? Why does this leave all the power in Apple's hands? Because they have the Rokr phone? There are plenty of other services in the mobile media market that have more penetration than Apple. -Josh On 1/3/06, Devlon

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
. I will choose the path that leads to more innovation instead. -Josh On 1/3/06, avideye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not underwhelmed, just unwilling to concede that Apple is the *only* player out

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
to rule them all solution will pan out. The iPod is definitely cool, but its not the only game in town. Things are just getting warmed up. -Josh On 1/3/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not underwhelmed, just unwilling to concede that Apple

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Greetings and Many Questions

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
MovableType also works great as a single solution. You can install this plugin that generates enclosures in your RSS feed and you're good to go, no other third parties involved: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/mtenclosures/ -Josh On 1/3/06, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Greetings and Many Questions

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
does not use any third party services. They pay for hosting themselves, which is not cheap though its certainly way less expensive than it used to be a few years ago. -Josh On 1/3/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MovableType also works great as a single solution. You can install

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
... -rob -- REELblogs.com Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:34:26 -0800 From: Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: more players other than iPod yes, but generally they suck. They are also mostly focused on streaming video (see: Verizon Vcast) because it is easier to charge

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more players other than iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
you're absolutely right. Technology is usually the least of any issue when relating to innovation. More often its usually business, politics, and social factors. -Josh On 1/3/06, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a good article in Wired a couple of issues back about why there

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video IS A TRAP!

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Who says everything should be free (as in beer)? If you want to do something, sometimes that requires an investment of time/money. Especially if you believe that the thing you're starting will actually make money one day and you will be able to recoup your initial investment. -josh On 1/3/06,

Re: [videoblogging] Real People Network

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This may come off the wrong way, but I'm really glad you interviewed so many women. Whenever I go to any of these tech conferences there's a noticable lack of women and I tend to find it rather shameful. -Josh On 1/3/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just added this to vlogdir's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Real People Network

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
these tech conferences, so we need to elevate those whose voices often aren't heard. But still, I need to get you on tape one of these days, Josh, even though you're a guy's guy ... :~) jd --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may come off

Re: [videoblogging] Re: other ways to view this group?

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This group is mirrored with Google Groups which apparently has better archive search: http://groups.google.com/group/videoblogging -Josh On 1/2/06, monika_lyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is to use an aggregator. I use Sharp reader, you can use any one you prefer. That way I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: XXX on Blip.tv

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Stephanie, Can you point me to any documentation on this secondary producer clause and what it means? I've been wondering about how sites like iFilm.com and YouTube.com persist seemingly without liability even though they willfully display content they have no right to broadcast (SNL clips and

Re: [videoblogging] I Dream of Rocketboom

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Kinberg
haha, your mental image of Andrew Baron is pretty funny... -josh On 1/2/06, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past four days, Amanda Congdon has been in my dreams five times. (Don't worry, I'm not complaining... I think Amanda is clever, beautiful and utterly hilarious). The other

Re: [videoblogging] I Dream of Rocketboom

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Kinberg
here's andrew... http://www.dembot.com/006223.html -Josh On 1/2/06, Joan Khoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Funny, I imagined him tall (between 5 10 and 64), blonde with short hair, average build. I also have no idea how he looks like. Are we completely off the mark? Anyone? :)

Re: [videoblogging] professional vlog start up

2006-01-01 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Rocketboom uses MovableType. A lot of people use Wordpress and it gives great results too. -Josh On 1/1/06, Misha Kleider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i would like to start up a fancy looking vlog. is movable type the format to use or should i make my own set up starting from scratch? what

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why LIFO? Any way to change to FIFO in Blogger?

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
other blogging engines, like TypePad, allow you to reverse the order of posts (ascending or descending order). BLogger is really limited when it comes to customizations. -Josh On 12/31/05, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's a dumb hack: suppress printing the date by

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
typically they play the videos much larger than their original resolution, so some distortion is inevitable when viewed at that size. -josh On 12/31/05, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been testing Google Video some more. So far, the video compression is really bad.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Also superceded by compression in Flash 8, but you need to upgrade Flash plugin to view it. -josh On 12/31/05, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been testing Google Video some more. So far, the

Re: [videoblogging] Which video file types can iMovie import?

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
mpeg-4 is a container format. It can contain many different codecs. What codec is the mpeg-4 you're working with? Open the file in Quicktime (even if it doesn't play) and press Apple-i for Get Info. This should tell you the codec, among other things. You may need a plugin of some sort to decode

Re: [videoblogging] Which video file types can iMovie import?

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might 3ivx be able to decode the file? Harold On 12/31/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mpeg-4 is a container format. It can contain many different codecs. What codec is the mpeg-4 you're working with? Open the file in Quicktime (even if it doesn't

Re: [videoblogging] convert to .wmv

2005-12-31 Thread Joshua Kinberg
get Flip4Mac Studio: www.flip4mac.com or popwire wmv export component: http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?cPath=1products_id=7 Flip4Mac is more expensive, but I highly recommend it. Excellent product. Also allows you to import and edit WMV in Quicktime, iMovie, Final Cut. Great for

Re: [videoblogging] 3ivx compression -- Help!

2005-12-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
You can do two pass compression without encoding once, then doing it again manually. Just set the first pass settings, then set the second pass settings, then leave the compressor on second pass and go to compress the movie. Works the same except you don't have to go through all the steps again

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Watching MP4 on a Mac

2005-12-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Are you on Windows? I wonder if you are having trouble playing those due to 3ivx? -Josh On 12/30/05, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quicktime 6 or 7, VLC, Mplayer, to name a few. If the mp4 wont open in quicktime then its either corrupt or theres something about the mp4 that isnt

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Watching MP4 on a Mac

2005-12-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
right, it helps to pay attention to the subject line disregard my comment. -Josh On 12/30/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you on Windows? I wonder if you are having trouble playing those due to 3ivx? -Josh On 12/30/05, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quicktime

Re: [videoblogging] Please use cell phone responsibly :)

2005-12-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Not to be a jerk here Devlon, and I think the MeFeedia re-vlog feature is nice, but do we really need a message to this list everytime you re-vlog something? -Josh On 12/30/05, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For your friends' sake...they might be trying to get a date. I revlogged the Cell

Re: [videoblogging] Please use cell phone responsibly :)

2005-12-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
...you know, one for a conversation. But, your point is noted, I'll talk about cool video that I find the old-fashioned way. Apologies for the mefeedia spam to alland I hope my response isn't Jerky ;) On 12/30/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to be a jerk here Devlon

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: more on Google Video

2005-12-28 Thread Joshua Kinberg
they can put ads around it too... though i don't think they have done that yet I believe its on the roadmap. -Josh On 12/28/05, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Google modify video uploaded to their site?

Re: [videoblogging] Re: more on Google Video

2005-12-28 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Oh, and they also show previews of videos from the search results pages... I guess that counts as a modification. They also modify the size of the video and rescale to fit the browser window size if you consider that a modification. -Josh On 12/28/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-28 Thread Joshua Kinberg
That's true. Maybe one day it it'll be as easy and cheap to do a video in a blog. While I'm throwing things out here... What if you did TV show as a videoblog? I'm not talking about taking a TV show and distributing it on the web or via iTunes. I mean, what if you designed a TV like show as

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
as neato and whizbang as that sounds in terms of interactivity, its not something that an individual can produce and distribute easily without a highly technical skill set and expensive authoring tools at their disposal. I'm much more interested in the democratizing aspects that are enabled due

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I think people too often confuse the what is a videoblog question as though it has something to do with the style of content (or the contents of the content). I would say that videoblogging has nothing to do with content and everything to do with medium. videoblog = video + blog so the question

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
or install this greasemoneky script which does all that for you and provides a nice download link on the page so you can click and save as http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/archives/2005/11/greased_google.php -Josh On 12/25/05, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho, Ho, ho! VIA:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Google Video Revisited

2005-12-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
The social experiences in each of these contexts you describe is very different. The audio waveforms may not change, but your experience does. -Josh On 12/25/05, wtrainbow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the point - I'm justing trying to challenge it because I don't ascribe to the

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-24 Thread Joshua Kinberg
, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of sounding like a jerk, do you really think your site gets enough traffic to provide a representative sample of anything? Uh, yeah, that did sound pretty jerky. A small sample

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-24 Thread Joshua Kinberg
%3A//www.crooksandliars.com/ On Dec 24, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of sounding like a jerk, do you really think your site gets enough traffic to provide a representative sample of anything? Uh, yeah

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-24 Thread Joshua Kinberg
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers Deirdre Straughan wrote: On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of sounding like a jerk, do you really think your site gets enough traffic to provide a representative sample of anything? Uh, yeah, that did sound pretty

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
FireAnt for Mac can play FLV, provided that the raw FLV file is syndicated, not the SWF wrapper. FireAnt for Windows does not yet play FLV, but it does play SWF. We are working on improving this. I think there are many benefits to being able to download and cache videos for local playback. This

Re: [videoblogging] feed favor

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Works fine in FireAnt on Windows. No problem. Haven't tried on Mac yet. -Josh On 12/23/05, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: worked ok in itunes On 12/23/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this feed crashed my ANT. works on vlogdir's aggregator:

Re: [videoblogging] feed favor

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
... as in.. it appeared as subscribed for 1 second, then disappeared, then fireANT shut itself down.WinXPANT v 1.0.1.28 On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in FireAnt on Windows. No problem.Haven't tried on Mac yet.-JoshOn 12/23/05, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: worked ok

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